More on Matthew Shepard at National Cathedral

On Thursday night I went to the National Cathedral to hear Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites. I purposely arrived very early, and used up some time wandering around the crypt chapels. In the St. Joseph Chapel, just about under the middle of the Cathedral, I saw a notice on the wall, printed on a card made of some kind of white poster board (?), probably temporary:

      Matthew Wayne Shepard
              1976—1998
  is interred in the columbarium
           behind this chapel.
          Requiescat in pace.

In the corresponding position on the wall on the other side of the chapel was a bronze plaque saying that Helen Keller and "her lifelong companion Anne Sullivan Macy" were interred in the columbarium. Maybe there will eventually be such a plaque for Shepard. Anne Sullivan Macy, of course, was the "Miracle Worker" played by Anne Bancroft in the play and movie of that title..